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Zurich Herald, 1936-01-02, Page 3J 3., iJ .,.. ,s.. -s. . - ..- 0.o-.. -. . one Canary for ee The s Hall By Adam Broome sIrrroPsxs Si.UirOR Ali14LLI of Milan, a fam- ouri composer, is about to tnaI a his fleet apPeat'ance in London. iie is to conduct the first performance of. a sYm- phorry at' his own composition at the queen's .Hall. The event has aroused very great interest. The hall is crowd- ed, and millions of listeners are waiting for the performance to come over the radio, Parent makes his entrance, and rais- ing' Ws baton suddenly collapses. A2edleal aid is immediately forthcom- ing, but it is obvious that the man is dead. in the audience are two Young people. Lettice Manton and Stephen Gar ton, "'es—yes," Haynes continued his call. "1'Il get in touch with Scot- land Yard at once, But you must let the local police know at once if you've not already done so. Yes. Very well. I'll get in touch with you again later in the day. Thanks very much. Good-bye." The Inspector hung up the receiv- er with a bang. He turned to Taun- ton. urder I'm not in your shoes. Anywrty, I can tell you something about the Ox- ford, end of the business which may be new to you, and may help you to That the League of Nations is ilr- satisfy the old girl's curiosity, 1revocably committed to halt �MU SQ - as the happen to know old Pratt pretty well fin's invasion of Ethiopia —got to a good few of his lectures— I opinion expressed, in an interview so what you get from me will be with Boston Transcript s by Missust Sarah sstraight from the horses mouth."I Wambaugh. who has He put down his coffee cup, light- from the League's Geneva sessions, e a fresh cigarette, and `settled him- I Technical adviser and deputy metre self comfortably in his chair. "Theres ' ber of the Saar Plebiscite Cornelis - a special safe at the labs. where all sion and for many years an authority the more dangerous and less -used on various European questions, Miss keys to it. The senior demonstrat- l Wambaugh said England's self -inter- ! est coincided closely with the present Poisons are kept. There are two or has one and old Pratt ,himself the ;trend of League activities, but she other, One of the drugs in this! scoffed at what she said is a frequent safe is curare. It's hardly ever ;allegation that England controls the used in official experiments, and al- , League for her own purposes. most never in general medical pract- i... "No one pretends that England ice. The text books say it may be ie Russia," Miss Wambaugh used in detain cases as antidote in , said. "But Russia is firmly supporting cases of tetanus, hydrophobia and; the League today. So are the Scan- strychnine poisoning, but I doubt if' dinavian countries, but it is self -in - it ever is. (To be Continued) "Whew! Thing's seem to be begin- ning to move with a vengeance. Viet was Professor Pratt of the Ashcliffe Laboratory at Oxford. He's lust lead to examine the poison i.afe. The stock of curare has been cleared out —lock, stock and barrel!" New Lei Collective Security Against Aggression Sought By Nations Woman Who Attended League's Recent Sessions Tells of European Situation ch Convict Set in U. S. Prison CHAPTEIR VI. Straight from the Horse's Mouth "Sorry to have got on to the sub- ject again. I suppose you're bored to death with it?" Stephen Garton lay back in the comfortable saddle -bag armchair in the smoking room of his club in St. Janice's. It was good to be inaoors ' on a day like this; the murky Nov- ember atmosphere outside was not matting, and stray wisps of fog kept penetrating into the smoking -room itself. He had taken far longer than usual to walk up from the For- eign Office, his principal exercise when he was at work in town. He thought himself rather lucky to run into a congenial companion for lunt'ir. Archie Hudd and he had been at school together, though Stephen was a year Achie's senior. They had overlapped at Oxford, and though Stephen had been at the "House" and Archie was at Balliol, they had seen a good deal of each other. Budd was reading for a me- dical degree, but he was eating din- ners at the Middle Temple, which ex- pi:lined his presence in London dur- ing the Oxford term. "eirst a bit." Archie Budd drank his c.ufee and puffed appreciatively at a Turkish cigarette. "I'm jolly gial of the chance to be away from tho labs.—cutting up frogs' legs and blowing things up in retorts. And I dare -say I can tell you a good deal that you don't know about this cur- are affair. The papers haven't published much about it. I suppose they've got their reasons. Probably the police don't want the fellow who dirt it, whoever he is, to find out jwt how much they do hrow about it." • : £ cour..e Pin int: ee..tett in the thing myself. To begin with I'm fond of music—especially Parelli's— and then T .actually saw the fellow bumped off. - "And, anyway, it':; a mysterious affair in itself—a good deal more interesting and puzzling than half the fiction one reads. But — and this is the most important thing—an old lady I know — a relative of a friend of mine—is absolutely potty about it. She's a fervent admirer of Pirelli's, and doesn't seem able to recover from the shock. She's over eighty, and used to write music herself in her young days, some- where round the 1850's, I suppose. This show seems to Have bucked hed up again, ind she's busy writing what she calls a 'tone poem' in mem- ory of Para. She's got the idea that because Pm in the F.O., and be- cause Parelli was an Italian, T ought to be in a position to know more about it than the police themselves!" "I don't quite see where you conte in s•tid Budd. "Does the olcl girl exrr' t you to do a little sleuthing on • rem own? I should have thought it wduld be considered highly unpro- fessional. I should have thought that that wa the Home Seerrtary's job, not the Foreien Office's." Stephen Caton didn't wart to dis- cloae his real reasons for wishing to keep on good tern with Mes, Man- ton, "Oh, I don't think it's as bad as :1'1 that. But she's a very up-to-date old ladv, incl some time ago took to reading `thrillers' and detective stories — almost immoral I call it at her time of lige. She can't get it out of her head that the police are just shelving the mattes', and- do - Ing nothing just because they aren't saving anything. She seems to int -- dine that the amateur detective in real life is s superior to the official variety as the usually is in novels. And she thinks that if I'm able to Present the world with some sort of saiisfactory solution of the problem, it'll be the staking of me," Archie Budd laughed. "I'm glad terest for all of them rather than any leadership of England's that they are following. "These countries all see their only Frosn the Chicago Daily News I3ACK of prison walls. the abund» ant life has never been a ruling theory, and achievement of the more abundant life through the de- struction of wealth would seem to be too subtle an idea for the eminent- ly pragmatic minds of criminals and their keepers. Nevertheless, the principles of AA A have taken firm root in Stateville down Joliet way. There Warden .Joe hope lies in collective security against Grandma -� �� 'aggression. They know that any. one �a ever Lout A ab ' of them might be some other nation's a Cl1 Ethiopia." "The fact is that. England is ab- solutely committed to the principle that any action must be League ac- tion," she said. As a consequence, she added, the present situation must de- velop either a war, a satisfactory Aged Swedish Nurse Assisted At More Than 100 Births Tea • Regan has decreed 'a reduction in the canary crop. It seems that many of the lads leave been raising eruntains canaries for sale, What more fitt- ing occupation Who should know how to raise cage birds better than jail birds? And could a canary born to live in a cage find a more con- genial birthplace than among caged To Please us an (From Edmonton Journal) The holder of the women's moun- tain climbing record hates mountains The warden, however, thinks that and climbs 'them only to please 'seer 2,000 canaries are too many for ! husband and children. This is not Stateville. He has limited canaries gossip. It is the frank statement of NO letters after her name, nor a agreement between Italy, Ethiopia and the League, or a complete yield - specialist in obstetrics, yet she has in by Mussolini. the credit of having brought more Miss Wanolini, said she saw a 100 babies into the world success- i number of Posters in Ithe a few dully, since she passed her Goth birth I weeks ago which might be construed day. „ " as threatening to England's African This is thef record bf "Grandma" . territories, one of which proclaimed: Lindstrom of the Athabaska district, "To Whom is East Africa? To Us!" who, now mare than 80 has given . „I believe that the Italian program her work of love and care for ( is the greatest threat to British. others which has taken her, at times power that has ever occurredin my into bitter winter weather over miles of icy roads. No call from a frau- lifetime," Miss Wambaugh . said. tic husband, whose wife was lying . "And I do not regard it as merely alone in some lonely shack has ever ! threatening Lake Tsana or her Afri- been ignored by the old lady who 1s can lands but as threatening her known and loved by all the residents 'whole prestige in the Mediterranean." of the district for many miles.) Miss Wambaugh said that Germany She came as a widow of 62 fromappeared to be eager to maintain Sweden. From the time of her ar-! frieldly relation with England at this rival Mrs. Lindstrom has been in de -i juncture, and that the German pub - man as a midwife. Twenty years sic has manifested cansiderable feel_ d ago, roads in the Athabaska district ing against Mussolini ever since his were not what they are today, but interference with the Austrian -Ger - no weather or roads were bad enough I ma affairs at the time of the assina- to stop her when he felt that her as- tion of Chancellor Engelbert Dolifus. sistance was needed. No student of medical books .and generally obliged to work in some lonely little log cabin, poorly heated and lighted only by a coal oil lamp, i Observes the London Times — "Grandma" Lindstrom has never Jost Among the names assigned to ships a single baby, and on none of her of the 1935 new construction pro of- sthas she ever shad the assistance grainare Liverpool, Manchester, of the doctor. Gloucester, Cachalot, Sterlet, Bittern, Sheldrake, Kittiwake, Gleaner, Plov- er and Research. The three cruisers which receive the names of English cities will make up a total of eight in this new class. An innovation is made this year in order that Man - LONDON, Ont.—London Board of clhester may have a representative Education decided recently that its ship in the Fleet. young women school teachers should Cachalot will continue a series of not be commended for teaching older marine monsters like Grampus and boy students the art of ballroom Narwhal, submarine mine -layers.. The to a quota of one per prisoner. Ob- viously one canary cannot produce more canaries. So the revenue of the canary raisers who have been selling the birds for $2 each is likely to be cut off. Of course, Stateville's appreciat- ion of music is likely to suffer, too. For the restriction edict is said to have been caused by a violent quar- rel between two canary raisers over the respective singing abilities of their pets. The warden, it appears, will have no prinladonna stuff in his "stir" — even among the impresar- ios of the feathered songsters. For nine days we stayed there, with This is doubtful policy. Some ob- avalanches roaring down the moun- ls, noting the popularity of fain, the snow so thick we couldn't philosophical works and belles settees see, no alcohol to cook on and the air with long-term and life patrons of so rare we could not make kindling prison libraries, have voiced the hope burn and it took hours to bring water that, during the present dart: ages, to a boil. We went around puffing for philosophy and the fine arts would air. I tell you it was awful, The only somehow be preserved in state -main reason I went on up and broke the women's record was because 1 could - not get back without having some of the men take me back. So I went on. I could hardly breathe. When we got to the top we could not even see the view. I did all this for what? To break a record? Nonsense! And when the photographer asked me to smile for a picture I boxed his ears, I was so mad. Mme. Dyhreufurth explains, how- ever, that if there is one thing great- er in her life than her dislike for mountain climbing, it is her love for her husband. The ]atter, born in the Alps and commencing a distinguished climbing career at the age of ten, entertains the belief that the great - Mme. nettle Dyhrenfu}•th who, in 1934, reached the .eutnmit of Queen Mary peak in the Himalayas, a giant of 24,500 feet and outdid the mark of 22,900 feet set by Ube late Mrs. Bullock-Worknhann in 1900. She says she thinks records are silly, Sports should be for the fun of it and, in her opinion, there is no fun in mountain climbing. She gives a graphic description of the blizzard that caught the party at 24,000 feet on her record-breaking climb and which resulted in ten Germans being frozen to death. Names For New Warships ancing In School Can't Help Discipline ed monastic retreats like Stateville. But what chance has musical critic- ism under this new canary AAA? THE OLD-STYLE SPRUNG BEE dancing. Teachers who spend much of their spare time teaching boys in their classes how to dance could scarcely expect to maintain discipline ,in the classroom, in the opinion of C. C. Carrothers, retiring chairman of the board. It was his speech which killed a motion commending teachers far their dancing instruction. Chairman Carrothers said he was layer, commemorates the capture of (Owen Sound Sun -Times) The Rotary Club of the town of Simcoe staked something new in Norfolk county when a picked lot of champion spellers from all parts of the county participated in a spelling match to determine the name of Sterlet will be the twelfth,', all beginning with "S" and all nam- es of fishes, which have been chosen for patrol type submaries since 1930. Bittern is a convoy sloop. Sheldrake, a name going back to 1806, acid Kitti- wake, new in the Navy, belong to coastal sloops. Gleaner is appropriate for a surveying ship. Plover, bestowed on a costal mine - unalterably opposed to teachers giv- ing lessons in ballroom Glancing. "It certainly car't help discipline," he said. Trustee Joseph Jeffery, who hacl asked that the teachers be commend- ed for their extra -curricular • activity, said he wouldn't use the word "ball- room." "All right then," came back the chairman, "I'11 say waltzes, fox-trots and tango. Yes, and the rhumba." Gems From Life's Scrap - Book "God never made His work for work for man to mends."—Dryden, it is only imperfection that com- plains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."-Fenelon. "Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world," --Mrs. Jameson, "The nations in America, no less than in burope, are preparing for ;further war. We are drifting toward another world -catastrophe worse even than the last."—Vlncout 'Cecil. the Dutch ship Kievit (peewit, plov- er) by the Morning Star in 1653.A gunboat Plover was concerned in the Boxer operations of 1900, and there was a destroyer Plover in the late War. Research, borne by three earlier ships of the Navy since 1846, is a fitting designation for the new mag- netic survey vessel. county championship, senior an junior. Something new in a way; but really a revival of a very old- fashioned form of entertainment. Back in the olden days spelling matches, or spelling bees, were quite popular; but in recent year they have practically disappeared as a Friday afternoon feature in some of the public schools. They were good fun and it was next to marvelous to look on and see difficult word after difficult word spelled correctly until one wondered when someone would slip. And there was always a long battle at the end, often ending in a draw, when the star spellers were left alone to up- hold the honor of their side. Nowa- days one wonders how long a spell- ing contest would last; for one of the penalties we seem to have paid for progress is loss of the knack -- or gift—of cornet spelling. The average business man has not time to bother about the correct spelling of a word—he dictates it to a steno- grapher and leaves it to her to do the rest. And the stenographer, if she is wise—and most of them are— keeps a dictionary in her desk for use in cases of emergency. Spelling is rapidly becoming a lost art. People nowadays are looking for new ideas itt the way of amusement; the endless round of teas, bridge and dancing becomes monotonous; ama- teur plays demand practice; musical affairs, unless fairly high class, do not attract. Why does someone not try the old-fashioned spelling bee? It would be a drawing card, for instance, to stage a match between the City Council and the Board of Education or a picked team from the Board of Trade. The Service Clubs might fatten their exchequers Hugo's Les Miserables, to tell the by an inter -club tournament. Even story in his own words in place of a city spelling league might be or- a scheduled lecture. It was received est sport in the world lies on the peaks that have never been, scaled, , So his wife goes on breaking records just because she knows it makes him happy. Unquestionably, back of her pre. testations, there is more than the obedience of a dutiful wife. Apart from record breaking, Mine. Dyihren.- furth has made distinct contributions to the world's knowledge, and there must be a real satisfaction in suck work whether one cares for the sub- ject or not. Her frankness, however, causes one to wonder how the me-, mous of the majority of men and' women who have done things would # read were they recorded with suck unsparing honesty. How many public heroes would have failed the hark had they not feared a dressing-down at home more than tbey did the perils to which they set their faces? How': many games have been won because of love for another person rather than love for the game itself? Work Their Way Around The World An attempt to work their way around the world in ships is being made by two young Vancouver sis- ters. They are Clara M. Wilson, aschool. teacher, and Katharine, a stenogra- pher. They started out on the first lap of their journey aboard the Bri- tish freighter Harmatris, on which they signed as members of the crew, early last month. The Harmatris will take them to Sydney, N.S.W. From Sydney they hope to catch a boat for India or the west coast of Australia, work their way to South Africa and up the east coast I of Africa and then go through Eu- rope and England, eeturning by New York and Montreal. The sisters said they had 110 spe- cial motive Inc undertaking the ad- venture, except for the desire to "see the world." Kang of England Still Crack Shot London. — Despite his 70 years, King George still retains the keen, eye and the steady hand that made' him one of Britain's best shots, and certainly the best shot among the world's monarchs for years. Next to yatching, shooting has al- ways been the King's favorite pas- time and he has a collection of guns almost comparable in value to hie stamp collection. Whenever His Majesty gets away from the affairs of state at Buck- ingham Palace and retires to his, country estate at Sandringham, one of the first things he does, his health permitting, is to ride out to the fields in search of grouse and pheasants. And it takes a fast marl to reload the King's gun. ii6i9L'!Il�lllii! illii1l!lii111l1M11111112111!1118'Ii1181: 11111CIi2l1111111PIEpll!I!F+IifliIIMIIR11!12!III._ 4 elf BY MAIR M. MORGAN ���'iiilgl!ill�luliird!!?i�!`iill`$ills.'!6dlllii�lii�r�3tilli�lilla�'!'kiHii�'16ililil�691ifliralfiii; "A VISIT TO AMERICA" by A. G. Macdonell (Macmillan's, Toronta) is delightful reading—one of the best, I think. of impressions gathered of that vast union of states, by a vis- iting British author. Mr. Macdonell has a deep sense of humor combined with a keen insight of human na- ture. One hilarious chapter deals with an afternoon's attendance at a football game. He covers a vast am- ount of territory—New York, Balti- more, Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and back. San Francisco evidently captured him completely. His recounter of the mad dash by auto, travelling at the rate of nine- ty miles an hour from San Francis- co to Los Angeles is a hair-raising episode. A perfect gift to any An- glo-Saxon. JEAN V AL JEAN as told by Sol- omon Cleaver, (Clarke Irwin, Toron- to will delight the audiences all over Canada, who heard Dr. Cleaver tell this 'famous story. This is the history of this little book: A young minister in Winni- peg some forty years ago decided, after two careful readings of Victor ganized. Perhaps a restriction might be put on that school teachers and public school pupils be barred or handicapped. "We can well be grateful that more and mare of our people understand and seek the greater good of the greater number."—Franklin D. Ro- osevelt., "The public can stand a lot better motion pictures than it has received the opportunity to appreciate." ---H. G. Wells. not lust "ropa'rod," but REBUILT from top to bottom AT THE FACTORY. Written now machine guarantee with every one, Seo us or write at once. State A'Iake and Size Preferred, Write John C. Dent, 387 Central Ave„ tendon, Ontario 01611lii181111 l 111111191111®illli®P161B ing an unusual character of rare un- derstanding. All pupils and teachers throughout the country should read with such enthusiasm that before he had once committed it to paper, he had repeated it more than 800 tim- es to our 100,000 people, and had been obliged to reject one invitation in every four which crowded upon hint. From so many of those who have heard Dr. Cleaver have come requests for his story in permanent form, that he has been prevailed upon to have it published. J3y good fortune an excellent screen version of Les Miserables was produced re- cently in France, and the publish ers have been able through the kind- ness of the Compagnie France Film to include fourteen scenes from the photoplay. A CANADIAN HEADMASTER by Watson Kirkconnell, (Clarke Irwin, Toronto) is a brief biography of the late Thomas Allison Kirkconnell by his son. Dr. Kirkconnell taught in the schools of Ontario for fifty years, chiefly at- Port Hope and Lindsay. These are but bare facts concern- 9 – it. TOY BALLOONS by Florence Stei- ner (The Ryerson Press, Toronto) brilliantly illustrated by Elsie Deane, Contains some verse for children that is quaint and delightful. Flor- ence Steiner in this volume of verse shows a deep understanding of chil- dren's whims and whimsies. All her work is based on actual happenings in the bewildering life of children. For instance take this one: Our rover seems just right to me There's nothing missing I can see But he doesn't show a pedigree. The pup next door has one I know, For Bob, who owns him, told me so, I wish our Rover'd let one grow. He has two ears and eyes deep blue, A cool, soft nose, and four paws too, And a little tail he'll wag for you. Dad says he's finished perfectly He looks as nice as nice can be, But I wish he'd grow a pedigree, CHAPPED HANDS? NO! /II APPLY HINDS See how ciuicl2•ly it soothes Issue No. 52 — '35